1/ Trump traveled to Pittsburgh to offer condolences to the families of the 11 victims of the mass shooting at Tree of Life synagogue hours after the first funerals were held. Pittsburgh mayor Bill Peduto explicitly asked Trump not to visit and did not appear with Trump. Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and Pat Toomey also all declined to appear with Trump. More than 1,000 people declared Trump “unwelcome in our city and in our country.� Earlier, Trump said: “I really look forward to going. I would have done it even sooner, but I didn’t want to disrupt any more than they already had disruption.� (CNN / NPR / Washington Post)

Robert Bowers complained about immigrant “invaders� six days before the shooting. There is no invasion, but right-wing media has been heavily using the word “invasion� in relation to the Central American migrant caravan this month. (CNN)

Shep Smith breaks with Fox News on the migrant caravan: “There is no invasion. No one is coming to get you. There is nothing at all to worry about.� The migrants are “more than two months away — if any of them actually come here,� Smith added.(HuffPost)

The Kansas man convicted of a 2016 plot to massacre Somali Muslim refugees asked for a more lenient sentence, arguing that Trump’s rhetoric should be taken into account as the “backdrop� for the case. (Washington Post)

Pence hosted an election event with a so-called “Christian rabbi.� Instead of opening up with prayers for the 11 Jews shot dead, Loren Jacobs praised Jesus Christ and then offered prayers for four Republican candidates. (Yahoo News)

2/ In an attempt to energize his base before the midterm elections, Trump claimed he can defy the constitution and end birthright citizenship via executive order. Trump said he discussed the idea with the White House counsel and that “it’s in the process, it will happen, with an executive order.� (Axios / Politico)

3/ The consensus among legal scholars is that Trump cannot end birthright citizenship by executive order. To end the constitutional right to citizenship for babies born in the U.S. to non-citizen, Trump would have to find a way around the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.� Amendments to the Constitution cannot be overridden by presidential action. (New York Times / Associated Press /